President Richard Nixon Address to the Nation on Vietnam, May 14, 1969

The President spoke at 10 p.m. from the Theater in the White House.
In his first national speech on Vietnam, President Nixon proposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam within a year of an agreement as long as the North Vietnamese would remove their forces as well.
Source information:
File ID: WHCA-3336
Collection: The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection
Original format: 2-inch Quad videotape
Transfer from second generation 3/4-inch U-matic videotape
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[@joedech3825]

Foreign policy GOAT

[@frankcivitak8248]

The podium & microphones awesome

[@mattwatters5702]

6 years later we ran out while the NVA stormed in.

[@MrDastardly]

War of 1812.
Powder River Indian War.
Red Cloud's War.
Formosa Expedition (Paiwan War).
Second Samoan War.
Korean War.
Bay of Pigs Invasion…..and the Vietnam, another war in the long list of wars the American regime lost.

[@ribbonsandrainbowsribbonsa2529]

To the moon 1968 born

[@starter47990]

Excellent speech. But he made too many concessions. And he telegraphed his military plans

[@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079]

Ho Chi Minh had the last laugh in his coffin. Vietnam won , USA lost.

[@johnh4434]

Lost what? And won what?

[@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079]

@@johnh4434 The Vietnam war. Was won by Vietnam just as America defeated Britain in its war of independence, it truly won its independence from foreign rule in 1975 after defeating French and US imperialism . The US left Saigon in 1975 defeated.

[@johnh4434]

@@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079 don't see any of that , looks like a meaningless war

[@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079]

@@johnh4434 it's all meaningless, humans killing each other for politicians and corrupt leaders .

[@tylsimys67]

@@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079 No 'Vietnam', f%&#ing COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM. With millions of casualties, then and after. But hey, who cares... C'mon Jake, it's Asia.

[@ArmyJames]

Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate Watergate

[@rtcp2020]

He talks like a news anchor

[@starter47990]

Lol

[@marcelbork92]

8:03 We have asked nothing for ourselves in return for those sacrifices." >>> This is not true.
ruclips.net/video/bZP91Aout2Q/видео.html >>> Guam was taken from Spain in 1898, but the other "Pacific Island Territories" were taken from Japan in 1952.

[@jayrodny8419]

Guam is not Japanese

[@IronMan-if4ke]

We still lost the war there, in spite of his speech trying to justify staying in Vietnam.

[@elimaurer9491]

He was a phenomenal President - His integrity for the office was the purest of the televised 20th century leaders. He worked so hard for The People, and had deep respect and reverence for our country.

[@ArmyJames]

Sure - other than Watergate, yeah.

[@elimaurer9491]

@@ArmyJames tell me, what do you believe the public's allegations were?

[@ArmyJames]

@@elimaurer9491 G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt were caught breaking into the DNC HQ carrying listening devices (one might also call them “hearing devices”)….. AND WIGS. 🙄

[@ArmyJames]

@@elimaurer9491 This was a lot more than “allegations”. Five of Liddy's operatives were arrested inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972. Liddy was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He was duly convicted in a court of law and served nearly 52 months in federal prison.

[@ArmyJames]

@@elimaurer9491 They were significantly more than “allegations”. G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt were caught by the police breaking into the DNC HQ carrying listening devices (or perhaps you would call them “hearing devices”)….AND WIGS. 🙄
They were duly convicted in a court of law, and each served several years in federal prison. “Allegations” you say?

[@studentoftheword6115]

He should of just ended it right away. I think Robert Kennedy would of done that and I know Marthur Luther King said He wanted it for good reasons.

[@thecawdsquad875]

Would have been a disaster. Communism would have spread.

[@FleagleSangria]

Then you do not understand the repercussions of an immediate pull out of the American forces in Vietnam back then.

[@FleagleSangria]

Then you do not understand the repercussions of an immediate pull out of the American forces in Vietnam back then.

[@FleagleSangria]

Then you do not understand the repercussions of an immediate pull out of the American forces in Vietnam back then.

[@FleagleSangria]

Then you do not understand the repercussions of an immediate pull out of the American forces in Vietnam back then.

[@robfrancis8690]

Ed Sullivan's address to the nation of clowns

[@xiaodongxu3057]

Rob Francis why do you say so?

[@robfrancis8690]

All politicos at the highest levels of political/financial government are ACTORS (clowns) They're professional liars, and yes, many of them play multiple roles upon the worlds stage... i.e. JFK, who is now playing the role of George H. W. Bush, or RFK who is now playing the role of Jimmy Carter... etc... It's all an ACT, and we're clowns if we think our political opinions matter....

[@brianusa1471]

Ridiculous speech

[@CmdrMic]

What exactly do you think was "ridiculous" about the speech?